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I'm not sure you have experienced the kind of procrastination the op speaks about. You have a to-do list of 5 items for today and then a week later(with up to

by Felix21 14y ago

I'm not sure you have experienced the kind of procrastination the op speaks about. You have a to-do list of 5 items for today and then a week later(with up to 11 hours of busy-work everyday), you're on item number 3. This kind of procrastination is a sickness and has causes a lot of emotional distress. You're reading hacker news(or even working on a less important project) full of guilt and indescribable negative feelings that you need to be working on the "important things", then you move to the important thing you need to be doing but you cant get it done cause there is this hyper-active force on the inside of you that just wont allow you to focus. Its a very sad-depressing place I hope never to return to.

taproot 14y ago
I have bouts of getting out of this cycle, but always seem to return, how did you get out?
- Felix21 14y ago
  When i got into this cycle i was in a desperate place. I got out of my first startup because "Chinese importers" had driven prices down so much that I couldn't turn a decent profit. A few weeks later, i got in touch with my manufacturer about a new product for the iPhone 5 and as they were in the process of manufacturing my new product, i listed it on amazon for pre-orders. I was selling about 10 pieces an hour and had a few thousand pounds in my account after about 5-days, enough to cover my manufacturing costs. Then amazon reached out that my account had been blocked because it was somehow related to another account they have previously blocked and i cant continue to sell with them or open another account. They froze my funds and cancelled my account, so i had to refund all those pre-orders and at the time amazon was 99.9 percent of my sales(big mistake) After that disappointment, i was a bit depressed and decided to leave that business and come into web startups. I started learning how to code and while i do enjoy coding, its not something i really want to do as much as something i felt (at least at that time) that i had to do. I think it was this mental block + the mild(not clinical)depression that caused me to continue to procrastinate this way. I was like this for i think about 6 months.. it was bad. Along with a complete lifestyle optimization (i went in hard on reorganizing my life to be efficient), the big change came when i started working on another promising project - i now had something to look forward to and a hope to hold on-to and i think that's what really made the difference and got me "productive" again. I can send you details about my lifestyle optimization if you are interested.

by Felix21 14y ago

taproot 14y ago

I have bouts of getting out of this cycle, but always seem to return, how did you get out?

Felix21 14y ago
When i got into this cycle i was in a desperate place. I got out of my first startup because "Chinese importers" had driven prices down so much that I couldn't turn a decent profit. A few weeks later, i got in touch with my manufacturer about a new product for the iPhone 5 and as they were in the process of manufacturing my new product, i listed it on amazon for pre-orders. I was selling about 10 pieces an hour and had a few thousand pounds in my account after about 5-days, enough to cover my manufacturing costs. Then amazon reached out that my account had been blocked because it was somehow related to another account they have previously blocked and i cant continue to sell with them or open another account. They froze my funds and cancelled my account, so i had to refund all those pre-orders and at the time amazon was 99.9 percent of my sales(big mistake) After that disappointment, i was a bit depressed and decided to leave that business and come into web startups. I started learning how to code and while i do enjoy coding, its not something i really want to do as much as something i felt (at least at that time) that i had to do. I think it was this mental block + the mild(not clinical)depression that caused me to continue to procrastinate this way. I was like this for i think about 6 months.. it was bad. Along with a complete lifestyle optimization (i went in hard on reorganizing my life to be efficient), the big change came when i started working on another promising project - i now had something to look forward to and a hope to hold on-to and i think that's what really made the difference and got me "productive" again. I can send you details about my lifestyle optimization if you are interested.